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    serve the society in general as well as the stockholders. An example of a company action that was legal but not socially responsible in the case of British American Tobacco Company in Malawi that founded Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation (ECLT) in October 2000. Many transnational tobacco companies indulged in child labour in order to exploit cheap labour and make as much money as possible in the process. Transnational tobacco companies are using child labour projects to…

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    zombie-human love story in the film Warm Bodies, the animated film Gnomio and Juliet and in such classic films as Bonnie and Clyde and West Side Story. Society seems obsessed with tragic romances. Romeo’s quest for immortal desire and destined love is shallow. In the beginning of the play Romeo is lovesick over yet another woman. Romeo becomes isolated from the outside world because of a woman, Rosaline, who wants to remain a virgin forever. He wants to take the one thing that is actually…

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    mathematical concepts like the quadratic formula worked too. Now, more than ever, I want to know why things works the way they do in classes like chemistry and calculus because that is how I learn best in my classes. I will never fail if I have a foundation in something. In addition to being more intellectually curious, I also became more personable. I began to slowly talk to more people because I realized it’s impossible to judge someone at first sight. I am grateful that I was curious enough…

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    According to a survey conducted by the Ecology Global Network, in the article “Birth and Death Rates,” it sates on average, 151,600 people die each day. In addition, an article by The American Transplant Foundation, titled “Facts and Myths,” states that at minimum, 21 people out of 123,000 men, women and children on the organ transplant list join the death rate every day. Incidentally, a single person can donate their body and save up to 8 lives. Thus if 20,000 of the 151,600 deceased donated…

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    often get caught in the gray my confabulation with Henry David Thoreau that day drowned me in the idea of the value of simplicity and its exceptional greatness. It was a shallow afternoon and the sun was hanging deeply in the sky, and because of my blissful ignorance, I wandered off into a place where peacefulness was a foundation of life. Walden Pond was the name, and a generous breeze devoured my body as night fell. I then, stumbled upon a man with an empowering presence. He introduced himself…

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    discovers the reality behind the curtain, then the person, once exalted, will more than likely be found hypocritical and undeserving. Then suddenly the observer holds no credit in the person’s words. Another way to destroy reputation, is through making a shallow assumption and providing a stereotype. There are thousands of different types, and rarely are they correct. Bertrand Russell said it best, “where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereotyped and all originality is…

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    Descriptive Writing Beach

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    As I walk along lazily, I dig my feet into the sun-warmed golden sands, still damp from the retreating tide, as to fend off the blistering rays from the furnace of the day. The pulsing heart of the sea allows my ears to adjust and calibrate to the rhythmic percussion of the waves, which were harmonious with the calls of the gulls. As they encircle me, it becomes clear that they are interested in the violet-bed of mussels that are burrowed within the grey stones above the tide line. The salt…

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    Historic Filipinotown

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    of Filipino laborers since they were considered US Nationals before the Philippine Independence Treaty of 1934. Stockton witnessed a short-lived but thriving community of manongs as we can gather today from the dance halls and the Little Manila Foundation. The third immigration wave allowed for War Brides to be reunited with their husbands, but it was not until the fourth wave, the Immigration Act of 1965, that there came an influx of professional and family units. Historic Filipinotown served…

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    Gramsci Free Time Analysis

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    Capitalism is an inherent system that is built on subjugating the lower class and having the upper class on top. It is built to dominate and control other classes. However, this only works with the consent of the lower class. Hence why the elites need to constantly be asserting and justifying their dominance over the classes. Free Time, according to Adorno, is a parody of itself. The unfree people are unaware of this process as they are of the unfreedom itself.” (93, Reader). Therefore people…

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    Its white paint was stained and chipped from the horrific weather and temper tantrums thrown on it. It was basically the foundation of the house. No matter the weather or tantrums, The memories of her holding onto the white rail with her left brittle hand and waving with her dainty right arm as my family left was a tradition of saying goodbye, never knowing when the last time…

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